About the Festival

The RE/Mixed Media Festival is a 2-day celebration of collaborative art-making and creative appropriation. It's the artists' contribution to the ongoing conversation about remixing, mashups, copyright law, fair use, and the freedom of artists to access their culture in order to add to and build upon it.

Featuring: Performances, panel discussions, hip-hop, sampling, beat-box, film & video, fashion, food, DJs, technology, interactive installations, painting, sculpture, software, hacking, and much more!

The first festival in 2010 was a huge success where over 1,800 festival goers enjoyed appearances by Moby, Steinski, Ricky Powell, Sweatshoppe, Deanna Zandt, Jesper Juul, and over 50 other artists, performers, musicians and DJs! This year, the festival's artistic advisory board - which includes Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Elisa Kreisinger, Josephine Dorado, Christopher Weingarten, Noah Tarnow and others - have helped us put together a day of truly top-notch art and performance.

• The world of the full "64 Paintings/64 Plays," a multimedia mindscape which workshopped at Bowery Poetry Club in June to packed houses and received tremendous positive critical response.
• A video remix program curated by one of the artistic leaders of the field
• A critical panel discussion on sampling and Hip Hop culture featuring legendary hip hop artists, writers, critics, and DJ's
• An interactive Art & Technology exhibit with artist talks & demonstrations/workshops in creating interactive art using MS Kinect and more!
• A live game show that will challenge your knowledge of remix culture and other critical issues.
• Some of our past collaborating organizations have included Open Video Alliance, Creative Commons, Participatory Culture Foundation, Organization for Transformative Works, Question Copyright and Public Knowledge.

We're looking to build on last year's successes, and put on a festival like no other.

Welcome and Upcoming Events

GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl] is an international organization for women working in the sonic and digital arts.  Girrl’s aim is to provide linkages, discussion, feedback and reviews, present research findings, offer networking, project generation, exhibition space, testing and showcasing of work in progress, initiate collaborations, and support to women curating, reviewing, making, theorizing and working in the digital and sonic arts. Girrl’s further aim is to encourage and support individual development and through that build pathways for creative engagement. Girrl supports women embracing artistic innovation, taking risks and testing boundaries with the aim of making a positive and ongoing impact within culture. Girrl is designed for and made up of artists, curators, undergrad and postgraduate students and academics from a wide variety of disciplines

Girrlsound is focused on sound artists, composers, performers, teachers and technologists who have an interest in, are making, or supporting sonic or sound art making with various and varied technologies, be they voice, text or electronically accessed.

Digitalgirrl is focused on digital artists, who have an interest in, are making, or supporting the creation of digital media and working with digital data.